keep being a good influence; get anyone and all that you can in the good fight against centralized corporate control.

They are totally doing it to themselves. there is just too much crap there.

I agree with you 100%, and Marx was very clear that capitalism is filled with theft and oppression. It’s nice that Marx also at times rested his critique of capitalism abstracting all the crony-ness and analyzed capitalism with ‘good intentions,’ showing that even without the oppression/theft it’s a failed system.

edit: misread!

He’s seriously going full force on the Midas Touch.

I’ve gone long years without using any social media associated to my identity, as many others do, and i’ll eat my cooked shirt if I start thinking, “hey sure why not let me into this shitty internet”.

I’ll be fine without using the internet if it comes down to it, at that point it’d be a liability. Dinosaurs think they can control the internet which is a hilarious proposition in the first place.

It’s a damned shame bookchin wrote a terrible article filled with wild distortions of history of israel/palestine. It goes without saying that people should just not go to bookchin to have an accurate or rigorous framing of middle east’s history and society. Ok, he inspired autonomous democratic movements like rojava, but that’s beside the point of it all and more linked to his social theories of democracy rather than any concrete understanding of history - as far as I know he never studied the history of the middle east in any serious depth.

His social ecology essays are filled with interesting stuff and did have some very good critiques of different environmentalist currents, he did have some strange critiques of Marx at times, but I still respect some of that work even if I may not agree with much of it. His views on zionism is another story though, not excusable. The silver lining is (as far as I know) it was just that one article.

Not sure who Maknho is so thanks for the name drop I’ll check their work out, but as far as I know, Bookchin was a lefty anarchist. I always assumed his later ‘libertarian phase’ was just another label that he’d eventually disavow as well but that his critique of the state also went alongside his critique of the market.

Can you refer me to other libertarians who are particularly anti-market, in the American context?

In my opinion what defines libertarianism overall is being non-statist and a belief in markets dictating all of life.

Left libertarianism is just progressive on social issues.

let me think about this one… mmmm, no

considering all the international resolutions and breaches of international law by Israel for almost all of its existence, the crippling sanctions are welcomed any time now.

ok so will they:

1. Disarm Israel from being able to commit its genocide and ethnic cleansing?

2. Not allow Israel to continue to maintain and expand its settlements, all illegal under international law?

3, Sanction Israel until it dismantles its non-democratic and exclusionary state based on ethnonationalist exclusionary politics?

4, Ensure the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants living many living in refugee camps and are stateless people, and allow them to return into their homes since the 1948 nakba?

5. Work on an international framework to ensure just reparations for the Palestinians are ensured?

I don’t think they will do anything close to any of those points and this is just mere political posturing to protect themselves from allowing a genocide to happen while the ‘international community’ stood and watched and did nothing.

It’s a bit insulting how they think they can dictate the terms of justice with their vague statements.

It’s been decades many states have recognized Palestine as a state. Look where we are at today.

lol any EU bureaucrat who thinks otherwise is either a useful idiot or themselves compromised?

lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don’t feel like i’m being psyop’d by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.

It’s difficult enough for getting people to switch from whatsapp to signal.

I don’t know how successful i’d be to get people to switch to simplex.

Is there a particular reason that you don’t recommend signal?

yeah, and not just leftist. you can have the most liberal and bourgeois-backed nationalist project just to secure some kind of national sovereignty and there will still be a coup. Case point: Iran and Mosaddegh.

Imperialism will sap the wealth of countries and peoples for short term gains, regardless of the economic system.

i call this a doubling down… there’s only so much fake constructed lies of reality until it just breaks the brain of followers.

all the best to them (not)

I also think the same way. If it was short form content of the same subject, ok maaaaybe the brain won’t be so clusterfucked. but as it is, it’s so random it’s just frying our brains.

can ya hear that hogan? the shit winds are coming for ya

edit: oh wow I didn’t know he actually died.

Good explanation, and I figured the same.

I feel the ‘encrypted at rest’ is then a false sense of security. Alas it is much better than gmail, etc.

excuse me ignorance, but I understand that once you receive mail from someone with shared pgp keys, they’d have no way to read the contents.

But when I receive an email from any service that sends me mail, or from a friend that doesn’t use PGP, it sits encrypted in my account… but how do we know proton isn’t ‘reading’ the contents when it is delivered and before it is encrypted in the account?

Is there a possibility of data mining or them storing the contents on their end? like a mirror image?